Proud to say Georgia

Since 1851, 25 governors of Georgia have been graduates of Georgia. At least 17 UGA alumni are presidents or provosts of colleges and universities in the U.S. Nine UGA graduates have received the Pulitzer Prize. Four UGA alumni have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Undergraduate Admissions

The University of Georgia is a national leader among public universities in the numbers of major scholarships earned by our students. We have had eight Rhodes Scholars since 1995. In the same period, our students have won 46 Goldwater Scholarships. UGA students have earned 12 Truman Scholarships since 1995, and each year we have multiple recipients of major national scholarships.

Graduate Admissions

Continuing Education

Whether you are looking for personal improvement, seeking a credential or wanting to change your career path, the University of Georgia Center for Continuing
Education delivers a variety of educational programs to meet your learning needs.

International Students

The University of Georgia has approximately 180 International Cooperative Agreements (ICAs) in over 50 countries. These agreements allow for the formal
development of activities such as faculty and student exchanges, collaborative research, seminars and workshops, and/or service programs.

Research at UGA

The Office of the Vice President for Research encourages and supports UGA research, scholarship and creative activities by assisting with the recruitment of research-intensive faculty, and providing infrastructure for sponsored research. We help to move UGA innovations into the marketplace, encourage research-based economic development, and ensure responsible conduct in research.

Centers & Institutes

UGA research addresses real-life problems, including the grand challenges associated with water, food, fuel, environment and health. It also enriches the soul through the arts, humanities and social sciences. OVPR's Interdisciplinary centers, institutes and research initiatives provide enhanced interactions and focus on advanced areas of research.

Student and Postdoctoral Research

Undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are critical to the successful pursuit of research and scholarship at the University of Georgia. They contribute in multiple ways to research and scholarship in the physical, life and social sciences, as well as the arts and humanities.

PSO Units

For more than 80 years, PSO has led the University in bringing its resources to each of Georgia’s 159 counties, 500+ cities, and around the world, serving more than 110,000 individuals annually to improve the quality of life in Georgia and beyond.

Service-Learning

The University of Georgia has been recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for its institutional commitment to community engagement through teaching, research, and public service with the Community Engagement Classification. UGA was one of only 115 colleges and universities to achieve this elective classification in 2010 and joined the ranks of only 311 institutions nationally.

Campus Life

Student Affairs is a primary point of contact for students through more than 600 registered student organizations; student programming groups; social
fraternities and sororities; student leadership programs and volunteer services; and international and multicultural programs.

Health & Recreation

The 440,000-square-foot Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Student Center for Physical Activities is one of the largest and most comprehensive fitness/exercise facilities for students and faculty in the country.

Get Involved

In 2000, UGA was the first university in the nation to organize a collegiate Relay For Life. It raised more than $115,000. UGA Relay now has over 3,200 student volunteers and has raised more than $2.3 million, benefiting The American Cancer Society.

Academic Units

Students and faculty pursue arts studies in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. The Special Collections Libraries provide access to materials related to the history and culture of Georgia, while the Willson Center and ICE promote Interdisciplinary inquiry and creative activity in the arts.

About UGA

Russell Awards honor early career teachers

Three University of Georgia faculty members were recently named recipients of the Richard B. Russell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the university's highest early career teaching honor.

The awards are administered annually by the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost and are named for Richard B. Russell, the university alumnus and long-serving senator from Georgia. Each awardee receives $5,000 from the Russell Foundation, which established the awards in 1991.

"Outstanding faculty are the foundation of great universities, and UGA is fortunate to have professors such as these on our campus," said Pamela Whitten, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. "The nomination letters submitted on their behalf make it abundantly clear that they have had a remarkable impact on their students and on the institution as a whole.

The 2014 Russell Award winners are:

Anthony Madonna, assistant professor of political science in the School of Public and International Affairs;

Maria Navarro, associate professor of agricultural leadership, education and communication in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; and

John Schramski, associate professor in the College of Engineering.

Madonna joined the UGA faculty in 2008 and teaches courses in American politics. His students consistently praise his enthusiasm and use of current events to engage them. One student described Madonna as "in love with the material," while another wrote that at the end of the semester "I am sorry to have to see (the class) come to a close." Madonna has worked with the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities to develop and teach courses in which students engage in data collection and have opportunities to co-author articles in refereed journals and present at academic conferences. He has supervised 23 student internships and spent the 2012-2013 academic year working for the Congressional Research Service as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow.

As a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis, Madonna won the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence. In his first year at UGA, he was recognized by the Student Government Association with an Arch award. He won the department of political science's Susette M. Talarico Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2010 and again in 2012. In 2011, he was chosen as a Fellow of the Lilly Teaching Fellows Program, a two-year mentoring program sponsored by the UGA Center for Teaching and Learning.

Navarro joined the UGA faculty in 2005 and views teaching as a means to improve the lives of her students and the lives of those they influence. The courses she teaches include international agricultural development, an Honors seminar on fighting hunger and a First-Year Odyssey seminar on poverty. She has taught courses in a study abroad program in Costa Rica and regularly integrates service-learning into her classes. Her scholarship focuses on the professional development of higher education faculty. She has served on several university-level committees, including the UGA Distance Education Advisory Board and the Lilly Teaching Fellows selection committee. In addition, she has led the UGA components of multi-state programs funded by the USDA on enhancing the undergraduate curriculum and has conducted similar professional development workshops for faculty in Armenia and Peru. She advises MEDLIFE, a student service organization, and Sigma Alpha, a professional agricultural sorority.

Navarro has won several national and international awards, including the Outstanding Early Achievement Award from the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education as well as the USDA National New Teacher of the Year Award. Her recognitions at UGA include the President's Fulfilling the Dream Award, the CAES Early Career Teaching Award, the J. Hatten Howard III Award from the Honors Program and selection to the UGA Teaching Academy.

Schramski, who joined the College of Engineering in 2007, teaches courses on thermodynamics, often considered to be among the most challenging-and frustrating-engineering topics for students. Yet his students consistently credit him with helping them understand the relevance of the material in a way that makes them want to understand it, despite its complex physics and math. A former student wrote, "thermodynamics is a complex and, in a sense, metaphysical science; it governs everything in nature and everything that has been and ever will be created. Since Dr. Schramski's classes, it is something that I relate to and think about every day." His students have published their work in peer-reviewed journals, presented at national and international conferences and have gone on to obtain graduate degrees from top universities or to diverse positions in the energy industry.

Schramski, a former Lilly Teaching Fellow, has been the faculty affiliate of the Lilly Teaching Fellows program for the last two years. He is the faculty adviser for the Society of Environmental Engineers at UGA, a student group he helped found, and was an invited instructor at Beijing Normal University in China. He is a mentor to students through the Office of Institutional Diversity's Connections Program and was an adviser through the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation program.

To be eligible for the Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, faculty must have been at UGA for at least three years and in a tenure-track position for no more than 10 years. A committee of senior faculty members and undergraduate students makes the selections from nominations submitted by the deans.